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title: Lamentations 5:2 (JPS 1917) — Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, our houses unto aliens. · tree and pragmatics
description: Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, our houses unto aliens. Who acts: Our. Lamentations 5:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Lamentations 5:2 · JPS 1917

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Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, our houses unto aliens.

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**Who acts:** Our · **What happens:** turn, inherit · **To what, where:** inheritance

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This is Lamentations 5:2 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Our), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:LAM:145
# text = Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, our houses unto aliens.
1	Our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	inheritance	inheritance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
10	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	aliens	alien	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present · passive |  | Our inheritance |  |  |  | unto strangers | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **inherit** |  | Our |  |  |  |  |  | nom inheritance «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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נַחֲלָתֵ֙נוּ֙ נֶֽהֶפְכָ֣ה לְזָרִ֔ים בָּתֵּ֖ינוּ לְנָכְרִֽים׃

[Lamentations 5:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.5.2/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:LAM:145` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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